Saturday, September 29, 2012

Starting Another War at New Ruskin College

Lecture Notes 09-29-12

To:Mr. Romney

Subject:Obama: If Romney Wants to Start Another War,
"He Should Say So!”

------- Real
Clear Politics 9-23-12

Another war!How many wars have you started?Doesn’t Mr. Obama see that when he says the
United States “will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear
weapon,” he is at least implying that we will resort to war?Or does his admonition not apply to
himself?Is it because he really is not
thinking he will resort to war?

Mr. Obama does not have to tell
the public he will go to war because he knows secretly that he is not even considering
war to stop the Iranians.He knows he is
lying when he implies we will go to war.

Community organizing requires a different
set of skills than does an executive leadership position.Mayors, governors, and presidents of countries
or presidents of companies, know the real meaning of leadership.Mr. Obama does not set a red line on the Iranian
question, because he cannot commit himself to a path of action.He cannot apply his will to a complicated
international problem;or any problem.

Recall that in 2008 he was promising
us he would open negotiations with the Iranians.Starting up the negotiations merely needed
the community organizer to be willing to meet with the Iranians.How did that work out?

Community Organizers are good “facilitators”
of discussions, they can use white boards to track the suggestions of the
target group they are able to make everyone feel appreciated, butputting all that into actions, . . . not so
much.

PSAnd I think Iran’s nuclear program should be
destroyed and the regime must be over thrown.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Condoleezza Rice at New Ruskin College

Condoleezza
Rice:We didn’t make the mistake of
installing a strongman in Iraq.We
didn’t make that mistake.

Don
Imus:Who said that?Who said we should install a strongman?What is she talking about?

Note:The Prince of Jordan recommended that the US
install a strongman.

Note:I also was thinking of General Douglas
MacArthur the American Shogun of Japan when I recommended to President George
W. Bush a “strongman.”General Douglas
MacArthur was an American strongman, who also wrote the Japanese Constitution,
which is still in use.If you are not
going to do any preliminary steps before going into the country then you need
someone to take charge, take command.Instead we had a series of boards selected at random.By my count we went through three separate
“governing boards.”This did not instill
confidence into the ranks of the New Iraqi Army.Next time Condoleezza contact me directly we
don’t need Imus In The Morning.

PSAnd
I think Iran’s nuclear program should be destroyed and the regime must be over
thrown.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

The New Middle Class: the 1%

Lecture Notes9-23-12

To:Mr. Romney

Subject:
In the Defense of the One Percent.

A new class is forming world
wide.I call it the New Middle Class.

The British first used the
term, middle class, to describe the class which occupied the place below the
Landed Aristocracy yet still above the working classes both white collar and
blue collar.In America when we discuss
the middle class we mean the most numerous class.There is not the same awareness of classes as
the British identify.

Americans include just about
everyone who is working, from plumbers to lawyers, in the middle class.It is virtually a mathematically determined
category.

It is this British concept of
middle class that I am thinking of when I defend the One Percent.This One Percent is above the upper class
(and middle class) but below the so called New Class of government leaders, and
the menagerie of toadies and hanger-ons, including the lobbyists, journalists,
and power brokers.

My defense of the One Percent
can be stated in just one sentence.Would you rather have Mr. Obama in charge of Bill Gates’ estate?Do you want all the power to be located in
the hands of the New Class who already control the vast apparatus of the modern
state?

By inserting into our society
the One Percent we create a new power center to counter balance the power of
the state.These One Percenters, most of
whom are very savvycharacters, can
compete with the state in carrying out new programs and projects that are
beneficial to our society.

Take for example Bill Gates’
investments in research for a cure of Malaria. The state could have lead the
way on Malaria but the New Class wasn’t interested.These One Percenters as I have said are very
savvy and form not only an alternative center for action in the world but an
alternative perspective to see what is needed in both private and government
affairs.

It has been argued that this
New Middle Class uses its wealth to manipulate the state for their own and sole
benefit.It is true some have used the
state to manipulate the market.Mr. Slim
in Mexico for example.This would argue
for the Republican Party’s stance that the state should stand at arms length
and let the market determine winners and losers not for the Democrats stance
that the New Middle Class should be taxed out of existence.

For reasons explained
elsewhere, without wage and price controls, the New Middle Class will respond
to higher taxes by transferring the higher taxes via the price mechanism on to
their customers.Remember the One
Percentersare rich because they offer
goods or services that are in high demand.This demand allows the One Percentersto transfer their costs, including taxes, on to their consumers.Unless wage and price controls are applied
there is no limit to what the One Percenters can charge.

When we say someone is rich
what we mean is that their goods and services are in high demand.Most of us have a more limited ability to
pass on our costs including taxes,because the goods and services we offer are in less demand, meaning that
we must absorb some costs including taxes.

The poor are poor because the
goods and services they offer are in low demand.The poor have a low ability to transfer their
costs including taxes.

TheOne Percenters’ goods and services are in
high demand perhaps in part because they reduce the number of people in the
middle or the poor classes that are needed by their customers.Mr. Ellison for example may supply Oracle
products and services that reduce the number of accountants (middle class) and
file clerks (poor class) needed by his customers.

And this may cause you to think
we should tax the One Percenters.But
without wage and price controls the high demand for their goods and services
will allow the One Percenters to pass on their taxes to the other classes who
have lower demand for their goods and services.The One Percent pay 40% of the national income tax.Where do you think the One Percent gets the
money to pay these taxes?From the other
classes via the price mechanism.

This is the real reason why
taxes should be kept as low as possible, because taxes settle into society on
those with the lowest ability to pass on costs to customers:the poor.

The New Middle Class may be involved in the
process of creative destruction, which negatively affects the other classes but
this is inevitable and certainly taxing them will not change a thing.Or do you think technological progress should
be outlawed?

Republicans have long argued
that corporate taxes are passed on by the companies to their customers through
the price mechanism.This is certainly
true for successful companies, those whose goods and services are in high
demand.But if this is true for
companies why should we be surprised that the New Middle Class can also pass on
its taxes and other cost?

PSAnd
I think Iran’s nuclear program should be destroyed and the regime must be over
thrown.

Monday, September 17, 2012

The least of them the bottom 47%

Subject: The First Policy is the Economy, but it is not the
only Policy.

I am a Republican because I recognize that the first policy
of governmentmust be to get the economy
right.If you do not get the economy
right none of the other policies matter.

However the
difference between the two political parties with respect to the economy has
narrowed in recent years.And not just
in America but in Britain as well.The
so called New Labor Party represents an open acknowledgement that the Socialist
Dreams have been replaced by economic realism.

Since Billy Clinton lead the Democrats backto the center on the economy, the debate
between the two Parties turns less on economics and more on the other issues
which divide us.

For example welfare had been for at least three generations
thought by Democrats as an alternative substituteto gainfulparticipation in the economy.Welfare reform under Billy Clinton is another open acknowledgement that
welfare was no substitute for work.Both
Parties had come to see that the culture of welfare was ruinous to the human
spirit.

(As I understand the position of Doctor Professor Senator
Daniel Patrick Moynihan on welfare reform, it came down to one issue:will we guarantee the children of welfare
absolute protection?Dr. Gingrich is the
only political leader to answer Dr. Moynihan’s position.Dr. Gingrich offered the idea of creating
orphanages.(I had previously
recommended we call orphanages “24 hour schools,”as a more up to date term.) ButBilly Clinton turned a blind eye on the
plight of the children of welfare.No
guarantees for the children were forthcoming.They “rolled over Moynihan” as one administration staffer said.)

But the fact remains that before welfare reform the
Republican Party held the leading position on that issueand the culture of dependency .The Democrats for overthree generations aligned themselves with
that poisonous culture of welfare.(The
recent movie Precious showed the lives of welfare recipients.)However, the point I am making is
strategic:as the Democrats move to the
center the argument for Republicansgrows weaker.

Had the Republicans followed Dr. Gingrich’s suggestion the
Republicans could have once again taken the moral high ground by offering 24
hour schools for troubled youths.There
are 19,000 children in New York City's homeless shelters.You may feel that theseare just part of the 47% who are dependent on
the government and you don’t care about them.However, the 5% to 10% you identify as being in the center and who may
be amenable to our arguments are concerned about the homeless, andabout the 50 million without health insurance
coverage, and about the 23 million unemployed or under employed or just too
discouraged to look for work.

If you want to persuade the middle 10%you must concern yourself with the bottom 47%
for the middle 10% of voters are looking at how you would treat “the least of
them,”before giving you their
vote.

PSAnd I think the
Iranian nuclear program should be destroyed and the regime must be overthrown.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Eisenhower Did It too

Israel has always said it would
not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East.There is no doubt that the Iranians are in
the process of introducing nuclearweapons.Thus if Israel
strikesIran with nuclear weapons it
will be in retaliation of Iran decision to go ahead with its nuclear weapon
program.Israelwill not have been the first to introduce
nuclear weapons.

It should be recalled that the
Korean War was brought to an end because of General-President Eisenhower’s
secret threat to resort to nuclear weapons if the Chinese did not agree to stop
the war.They did not agree to peace
only to an end of hostilities.

The threat of nuclear weapons
has not deterred Iran’s rulers thus far.This fact alone should inform our evaluation of the Iranian
intentions.Even now, before they have
acquired nuclear weapons, they are willing to expose their subjects to nuclear
attack.(Fortunately most Iraniannuclear weapons targets are buried deep in
the ground along way from populated areas.)If the Iranians are willing to brave nuclear attack now, before they
have nuclear weapons, why should we believe they will not expose their subjects
to attack when they do have them?Numerous Iranian officials have said that whereas the Muslims can survivea nuclear attack the Jewish State can not.

Some have argued that an attack
would only set back the Iranian nuclear program for a few years.First it should be noted that a few years
seems a blessing to the condemned.Wouldn’t
you take a few years reprieve?Secondly,
this contention argues for more action by Israel not less.In addition to taking out the Iranian nuclear
weapons targets Israel should take out additional targets to assist the people
of Iran to take back their country.

For example, tactical nuclear
weapons could be used to destroy Iran’s one and only oil refinery.Iran’s import and export oil docks should
also be destroyed.Electro Magnetic
Pulse weapons should be used on the main urban targets.Water works and sewer systems should also be
destroyed.And every attempt should be
made to decapitate the regimes leaders.The city of Qom itself could lawfully be destroyed as it is the seat of
the regimes leaders.

Have we forgotten that in WWII
and Korea and even in Vietnam we thought laying waste to cities was an
acceptable and lawful means of war?

Or is it only gentiles who are
allowed to fight wars this way?Of
course, conventional weapons could be used if the US were to support our ally.

PSAnd I
think the Iranian nuclear program should be destroyed and the regime must be
overthrown.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Community Organizers

As a former community organizer,
(two years with Volunteers In Service To America), I think I can explain the
difference between a corporate manager and a community organizer.

Corporate managers seek
resolutions of problems. But the last
thing a community organizer wants is a solution to the problems faced by his
community. The community organizer uses problems
to rally his community. If the problem
is resolved then the community organizer must start all over again trying to
find a way to motivate his “community” to organize around some new problem.

You could call this leading from
behind.

Mr. Obama was criticized for allowing
the House and Senate to write the Medical Reform Bill by themselves. He lead from behind because he was not
focusing on solving the Health Problem.
Rather his goal was to organize around the Health Problem. He wanted the issue not the solution.

Why did he demand another $400 billion
at the last minute of negotiations of the budget with the Speaker of the
House? He didn’t want a solution to the
budget he wanted the issue. Why doesn’t
he raise the quota on immigration from Mexico from the current 250,000 to a
higher level? Again he wants the issue
to organize in this case the “Hispanic Community.”

He knows as well as you that the
Social Security System and Medicare are doomed unless action is taken. But whereas you layout plans to solve this
problem the Community Organizer in the Oval Room is using the fear of the
elderly community to organize them into a political force.

Never the solution always the
issues.

PS And I think the Iranian nuclear program
should be destroyed and the regime must be overthrown.

Sunday, September 09, 2012

New Ruskin College

The most common statement from survivors of the Holocaust was: “When the dictator says he is going to kill you --- believe him!” The Iranian leaders must be believed. They will exterminate the State of Israel if they are given a chance.

Believe them. And remember a state of war exists between the United States and Iran. Iran invaded the sovereign territory of the United States: The embassy in Teheran.

PS And I think the Iranian nuclear program should be destroyed and the regime must be overthrown.